![]() Rey uses some Sith-style Force lightning during a confrontation with Kylo early in the movie, which implies that her powers may come from a source of darkness, and in Rise of Skywalker’s first scene, we meet a resurrected Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), who has come back to life thanks to franchise-fatigue dark Sith magicks. Whatever the reasoning behind this decision, the rest of the movie does a lot of work to try to explain the consequences and establish a few clues beforehand. Rey, our nice British hero, is somehow related to this guy? This is supposed to be more satisfying than the notion that Force sensitivity can come from nowhere and anyone can become a galactic savior? Sure, J.J.! That moment, laden with the weight of what’s supposed to be a franchise-shaking reveal, landed with more than a few laughs when it came up in a press screening. Kylo, all but adopting a Maury voice, tells Rey that, in fact, she’s the granddaughter of Emperor Palpatine. As it turns out, they were actually hiding out on Jakku from someone further up the family tree. In the first third of the movie, Kylo and Rey face off in one of their many middle-school-instant-message-style bits of fighting-slash-flirting through their Force connection, and Kylo comes at her with a twist explanation: Her parents are nobodies but only because they chose to be. Whether you like it or not, The Rise of Skywalker quickly rewrites that plot point. According to Kylo Ren, her parents were just junk traders who abandoned her as a kid. One of the more daring decisions in Star Wars: The Last Jedi was the movie’s implication that the sequel trilogy’s Force-sensitive ponytail-aficionado hero, Rey (Daisy Ridley), wasn’t related to anyone important in the series’ big dynastic battles. ![]() Spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker follow, obviously.
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